I Try Explaining (Some of) Silent Hill's Lore
[ This started as a response on Reddit . It is meant to be a very rough explanation of the events that build up the world of Silent Hill, at least for the Team Silent-developed games.] While the first three "Silent Hill" games are fairly consistent, the fourth one changes things a bit due to the nature of portals to different parts of the game's worlds and the introduction of Walter Sullivan's Ritual story, and then the later western-developed games also add new things (and even retroactively alter story bits of previous games,) so I'll just try to cover the first three games. Firstly, the BASIC LORE, since I'm not going to put everything (might as well play the games and read the official books for that.) I'll also try not to spoil the actual games' events beyond basics: Pre-1600's: the land of Silent Hill before the town's founding is sacred ground for rituals performed by Native Americans Late 1600's: European settlers a